Celina Tebor - Senior Editor
Celina Tebor
Senior Editor
Celina Tebor is a senior editor based in Los Angeles for CNN's National News Hub.
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An L.A. neighborhood was terrorized by a warehouse inferno. The big cleanup is done, but the suffocating stench remainsAug 31, 2026After the Boyle Heights warehouse fire, millions of pounds of previously frozen food was left behind, rotting and permeating the neighborhood with an inescapable stench -
• Live UpdatesLive Updates Witnesses to Tupac Shakur’s killing testify in first day of Duane Davis murder trialAug 18, 2026The trial of Duane Keith Davis, who was indicted in 2023 in Tupac Shakur’s death, kicked off today with opening statements and testimony from four witnesses. -
Six weeks after Nancy Guthrie vanished, the spotlight on Tucson dims as the cloud of uncertainty lingersMar 19, 2026Nancy Guthrie has been missing for over six weeks, and the intense media and law enforcement presence that descended on her affluent Catalina Foothills neighborhood has mostly dissipated. But the community still has questions. -
Four immigration courts. One day. And a window into a world the public rarely seesDec 1, 2025Spend just one day in a few immigration courts across the country, and the high-stakes dramas unfolding within offer a revealing glimpse into the White House’s efforts to reshape the country — and the immigrants whose lives hang in the balance. -
Trump has had his sights on Portland, Oregon, for years. This is how we got hereOct 9, 2025The president has taken aim at some of the country’s largest Democratic-run cities, sending in federal officers and, in some cases, the US military to aid immigration enforcement and root out what he calls rampant crime. But one of his targets isn’t even among the country’s biggest 30 metro areas. -
Journalists grabbed, shoved by ICE agents in New York immigration court, video showsOct 2, 2025At least one journalist appeared to be injured after one reporter was grabbed and another was shoved by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a New York City immigration court Tuesday morning, video of the encounter showed. -
Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell systemSep 23, 2025A Secret Service unit set out to unmask the layers of burner phones, changing phone numbers and SIM cards that were swatting American officials. It ended with the largest seizure of SIM servers and cards they’ve ever seen. -
Border Patrol arrests 2 crew workers helping battle Washington’s biggest wildfire for being in the country illegallyAug 30, 2025Border Patrol agents on Wednesday arrested two crew workers helping to contain Washington state’s biggest wildfire, saying they were in the United States illegally. -
Already facing Trump administration cuts, US colleges risk losses from another revenue source: foreign studentsApr 18, 2025Foreign students considering whether to attend college in the US are looking at a new landscape, including the revocation of hundreds of student visas. If they choose to take their dollars elsewhere, it could spell financial trouble for the US colleges that rely on them. -
DHS said in 2016 it was not moving to deport a convicted Army vet. He’s spent most of Trump’s new term in ICE custodyApr 3, 2025He and his wife are still waiting to understand why an agency that had explicitly stated it was not pursuing deportation proceedings against Parris still has him in custody and is trying to remove him from the country he served on the battlefield. -
Suspect arrested and charged with vandalizing Rutgers Islamic center, stealing Palestinian flag during Eid al-FitrApr 1, 2025A suspect has been charged with a federal hate crime after allegedly breaking into and destroying property at Rutgers University’s Center for Islamic Life. -
Scouting the city, setting a fire and bringing in supplies: Here’s how the NOLA suspect planned the attackJan 7, 2025Nearly a week after Shamsud-din Jabbar rammed a pickup truck into a busy crowd celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans, killing 14, details of how he planned the attack are becoming clearer. -
Hannah Kobayashi ‘has been found safe,’ family says in new statement after police declared her voluntarily missingDec 12, 2024Hannah Kobayashi “has been found safe” according to a new statement released by her family, more than a week after police declared the Hawaii woman as a voluntary missing person after video surveillance showed her crossing into Mexico. -
Daniel Penny acquitted of criminally negligent homicide after more serious manslaughter charge was dismissedDec 11, 2024A Manhattan jury found Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide Monday in the death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway last year. -
Manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny dismissed, jury to continue deliberating lesser charge MondayDec 6, 2024A judge granted a motion from Manhattan prosecutors to dismiss the more serious charge of second-degree manslaughter against Daniel Penny on Friday in his trial over the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway last year. -
Jury deliberates for third day in NYC subway chokehold trialDec 5, 2024A Manhattan jury began deliberating Tuesday in the manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny, the former Marine charged in the chokehold death of a homeless man on a New York City subway last year.
About
Celina Tebor is a senior editor based in Los Angeles for CNN’s National News Hub.
Tebor plays a key role across CNN’s multiple platforms, leading reporting efforts and editing both breaking news and long-term stories, with expertise in immigration and legal coverage.
She was previously a national breaking news reporter for USA TODAY, and has worked for the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, The Oregonian and Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Tebor was named the Asian American Journalists Association’s Emerging Journalist of the Year in 2023 and was a member of AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program cohort in 2026. She’s served on local AAJA boards for five years, most recently as vice president of the New York chapter.
Tebor is a Portland, Oregon, native and graduated from the University of San Diego.
